A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
Charles Dance

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.
Charles Dance

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.
Charles Dance

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
Charles Dance

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
Charles Dance

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.
Charles Dance

It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.
Charles Dance

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.
Charles Dance

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
Charles Dance

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
Charles Dance


You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
Charles Dance

You have to be selfish to be an actor.
Charles Dance

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.
Charles Dance